The Global Literary Field
Editor: Anna Guttman, Michel Hockx and George Paizis
Date Of Publication: Oct 2006
Isbn13: 9781847180537
Isbn: 1-84718-053-1
The Global Literary Field is a collection of twelve articles dealing with the impact of globalization on literary production. Focusing especially on the social context of literature and employing comparative methodologies, all articles comment on the literary market as it functions today, highlighting unexpected and understudied commercial and symbolic exchanges between literary communities from different parts of the globe.

Featuring the work of many scholars working from non-Eurocentric perspectives and with non-European languages, this collection constitutes a timely intervention in the ongoing debate about “world literature”, which is so often dominated by scholars specializing exclusively in European literatures. The global literary field, as described in this collection, ranges from Atlantic Canada to Malaysia, from the Caribbean to Japan, and especially also across cyberspace. Dealing with both “serious” and “popular” literature and with the important issue of translation, this collection achieves a uniquely comprehensive coverage of a highly complex global phenomenon.

Anna Guttman is Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literature in the Department of English at Lakehead University, Canada. . She has published on Vikram Seth, Nayantara Sahgal and Jawaharalal Nehru. Her forthcoming work includes a monograph, entitled The Nation of India in Contemporary Indian Literature.

Michel Hockx is Professor of Chinese at SOAS, University of London. His research focuses on the social context of modern Chinese literature. His recent publications include Questions of Style: Literary Societies and Literary Journals in Modern China, 1911-1937.

George Paizis is in the French Department at University College London. He has published Love and the Novel: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction. He has also published articles on the translation of romantic fiction and on ideology and popular culture.

"This highly informative and inspiring anthology is an outcome of 'The Global Literary Economy,' a conference that was held in 2005 at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London ... The anthology addresses a wide range of topics relevant to scholars working in various fields. The individual contributions highlight the persistence of long-standing concerns (e.g. the dominant role of market-forces) and the emergence of new opportunities (e.g. new publishing venues in the digital age) ... Everything considered, this anthology clearly indicates that the comparitive study of the world's literatures generates illuminating and thought provoking analyses that shed light on the ways in which people across the planet make sense of life by producing and consuming literature."

-Nina Berman, The Ohio State University, in Recherche Littéraire/Literary Research, 2008 issue, pp. 62-64

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